MacKenzie Beyer and Dwayne Carrington as Desdemona and Othello in The Othello Project,

You have two days yet to catch “The Othello Project,” a multimedia performance piece by Visionbox that weaves Shakespeare’s tale of the duped, jealous Moor and his devoted wife and victim, Desdemona, with scenes from modern relationships gone terribly afoul as well as commentary on sexual politics by Simone de Beauvoir.

It’s onstage at the L2 Arts and Culture Center, 1477 Columbine St. on Colfax through Saturday night, June 9. (Tickets, $5-$20)

Directed and conceived by Jennifer McCray Rincon (for many years head of acting at the Denver Center’s National Theatre Conservatory), “The Othello Project” was uneven (I saw it last Saturday), but it is without a doubt the kind of ambitious, engaged undertaking one hungers for from theater companies.

In addition to Shakespeare’s usual suspects stumbling headlong toward tragedy, the play features Jack Williams (Nathan Bock), an abusive ex-husband, and Sgt. Pitts, the police detective (Ben Morrow) who interrogates him. De Beauvoir (Morgan Flahive Foro), the French philosopher and author of “The Second Sex,” makes an appearance, theorizing about the divergent upbringings of boys and girls. A Southern woman named Anna (Jennifer Dean) recounts the night her boyfriend turned vicious.

“The Othello Project” is an original and provocative work. Robert Davidson, doing double duty on motion and sound, provides the actors with potent, sharp and beautiful gestures. His choreography often underscores the violence being recounted by victim or perpetrator.

In a powerful bit of synergy, “The Othello Project” is making it possible for audience members to attend the Denver Film Society reprise screening of the compelling, documentary “Crime After Crime,” about a California woman imprisoned for her alledged role in the killing her abusive boyfriend. (Sunday, June 10, 4 p.m., free with “Othello Project” program.)

Film & theater critic Lisa Kennedy likes to watch -- a lot. She also has a fondness for no-man’s lands, contested territories and Venn Diagrams. She believes the best place to live is usually on the border between two vibrant neighborhoods. Where better to apply this penchant for overlap and divergence than covering film and theater – two arts that owe so much to each other yet offer radically idiosyncratic pleasures? In another life, Kennedy was an Obie judge. In this one, she’s been a Pulitzer Prize judge in criticism, an Independent Spirit Award jurist and Colorado’s first member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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